More French Proverbs

A guest and a fish after three days are poison.... >>

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.... >>

Hunger looks in at the industrious man's door but dares not enter.... >>

The bagpipe never utters a work till its belly is full.... >>

To give tardily is to refuse.... >>

Other Proverbs

Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter... (Native American) >>

You don't put robbers to work in a bank.... (American) >>

Ale in, wit out.... (English) >>

A proverb is the child of experience.... (English) >>

A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.... (English) >>

Good bargains are ruinous.

- French Proverb